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I wanted to believe this, but I think it could be too late. Doing so would require gargantuan amounts of energy that I think could only come from fusion but tha

I wanted to believe this, but I think it could be too late. Doing so would require gargantuan amounts of energy that I think could only come from fusion but that is at best 30+ years away from first net energy. Even then it would take some time to build enough capacity, and lag effects in the environment mean we will almost certainly see some pretty effects in the next 100 years.

sulam 9y ago
With today’s technology, yes. There’s good science being done right now that is much more efficient. And all our current approaches are chemical engineering, but I personally think organisms modified with CRISPR could be a better path. You’re just trying to get them to do what they already do, more quickly, and I think that’s in the realm of near-term science fiction instead of magic.